Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (born 1 May 1940) is a Mexican prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas from 2000 to 2015.

On 31 March 2000, Pope John Paul named him Bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas.

[3] He succeeded Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, a social progressive who had defended the rights of the indigenous peoples and of the Zapatista rebels.

[4] In 2012, he announced that he would be organizing efforts to translate the Catholic Mass and the Bible into the indigenous language Nahuatl.

[8] At that consistory, Pope France made him Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort.